United States v. Dewey Brown, Paul Henry Kidd, Movant-Appellant

REYNALDO G. GARZA, Circuit Judge:

Background

Paul Henry Kidd (“Kidd”), an attorney representing Dewey Brown in a criminal case, was suspended from the practice of law for one year and fined $5,000 by the district court for challenging, without an appropriate factual basis, the district court’s handling of his client’s trial. 1 Kidd had alleged in alternative motions for a new trial or for judgment of acquittal notwithstanding the verdict and the accompanying brief that

[T]he trial court denied the defendant a fair and impartial trial by creating the perception in the mind of the jury that it…